New Delhi, March 31 -- Lieutenant governor (LG) of Delhi, Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Monday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to address the continuous inflow of fresh and legacy waste into landfills, officials said. The directions came while the LG was inspecting the ongoing bio-mining work at the Bhalswa landfill site. Spread over 70 acres, the Bhalswa landfill had 7,300,000 metric tonnes (MT) of waste in November 2022. While 4,500,000 MT was bio-mined till December 2024, another 3,980,000 MT of fresh waste has been deposited on the site, about 4,000 tonnes per day. "Another 1,350,000 MT of legacy waste and 1,400,000 MT of fresh waste accumulated from March, 2025 till date needs to bio-mined," an official said. To be sure, b...